Well, it depends on the Dunkin'...

There are sites that have COL calculators. They are possible guides.

According to this calculator, $100K in Birmingham, AL is equal to $191,000 in Boston, MA.

No, because the money has nothing to do with me.

> Then let’s figure out why this thing cost $10m dollars.

Why is the cost significant if it was money raised from donors?

But you only know those things because you read and learned about them. You learned what an obelisk was (and it's historical significance) and what it says on the statue's plaque. You can't read the plaque from standing at the base or a ferry ride.

If you saw the Statue of Liberty would you think "welcome immigrants"? If you saw the Washington Monument, would you think "George Washington was a pretty cool president"?

It's art. You can enjoy it for the art itself and you can enjoy it for the story it tells. It's up to you, not the artist.

One of the blue ones from the original color scheme?

There is some risk to others. If, while driving or cycling, I hit a pedestrian who jaywalked across the street, I'd be pretty shaken up by it.

I don't know where the "inflation raises" concept seeped into the public's mind. The raises are raises. They are typically 2-4% regardless of whatever else is going on in the world. The MTA is trying to smash up to 5%-6% a year raises, but every town is pushing back. This is why there have been some strikes lately and I predict there will be more. Towns aren't going to pony up 5-6% per year.

That headline doesn't match the article. It said Boston was 30th of 170 cities for people living alone (38%). That women living alone ranks 11th (23% of women in Boston live alone). Only 15% of men live alone.

Agganis is pretty small so every seat will be a good view. If the setup is the same as usual, the show's scenery faces sections 107, 108, 109 at the end of the arena. I'd prefer to be up a bit rather than down low. The perspective gets a little lost up close. Those end seats can run from $20 to $50. So, I would go for the $35 in the middle.

> responsible and courteous

A new city slogan

Boston: Responsible and Courteous

Transplants could coordinate to wear purple or something. Like if you saw someone in purple, you'd know they weren't from Boston. So, they'd be safe to talk to.

I'm not established in my friends group. I just prefer to not have friends. I met the people from Boston growing up. We aren't that great.

Branches falling are your "problem" unless you pass the issue to the home insurance. Your neighbor has to do some real neglectful stuff for it to be their fault. Like they'd have to be cutting it down and go answer a phone inside.

Suffolk Downs would have been a very good site as the MBTA was already there as was parking.

I just checked on Citymapper - the ultimate transportation app - for a Tuesday 5 PM, say for a 7 pm game, right. It's over 30 minutes from Paddington to Wembley for every option whether rail, tube, bus or some combo.

The best benefit of London's options over Bostons option (there's really only one) is that there's a rail/tube/bus option from all directions and times. And, they run regularly, while the MBTA will probably do 1 or 2 trips down and 1-2 trips back. So, while you're not waiting for the Foxboro train to arrive (because it'll be a special ticket time, not a commuter rail schedule), you have no options for winging it to get there extra early or stay extra late, as you would in London.

My overall point is that most football stadiums aren't in the "city." You're probably taking a train to the stadium from your hotel. MetLife near NYC isn't closer to NYC than Foxboro is to Boston. That's an hour+ trip by train out to a marshland if you stay in Midtown. (And if you stay outside, then you're taking the 30 minute train into NYC.) I think SoFi Stadium in LA is closer to the city, but public transport I don't know well.

However, if I was recommending a city to see WC 2026 and your team didn't matter - I'd choose Toronto. You can legit stay in Toronto and walk to the games and just about anyplace else a tourist wants in the city.

I know Wembley is in London. I lived in London. And, London is also massive. It's 7 times the square footage of Boston (650+ to under 90). Wembley's not in Downtown London from a tourist perspective.

Fenway is "in Boston." You can walk to Fenway from basically any tourist neighborhood of Boston. You aren't walking to Wembley from Picadilly, South Bank, Hyde Park, Kensington, Chelsea, etc...

My place was near Southwark. It was about an hour to get to Wembley on a game/concert night. It's a longer line getting out of there and onto a train (Wembley Park is about a half mile) than Foxboro.

Back Bay to Foxboro is around 50 minutes on the train. Covent Garden to Wembely is not much faster.

All this said...rather see game/concert in London than in Foxboro...and I'd trust a London train over the T. And London trains compared to driving to Foxboro. It's not even close - London trains X 50 over a four lane road.

London's Wembly Stadium is like 40 minutes outside of London. Hopefully, the MBTA will get those trains running those nights.

Then we can do a deep data dive and realize our method had flaws, so a second, more comprehensive study is needed next year.

If the legislature holds current budget levels and ADDS that money in, we can attack some of these therapeutic and socioeconomic needs. I'm still cautious that it becomes new money in to maintain budget levels.

> a culture and climate study

Administrations love a good "study" as a way to push off what needs to be done as long as possible. Got to get all the stakeholders points of view, right?

There's no "job description" for teaching. It's just whatever the new thing is you are supposed to do plus all the old things. Whose got a new acronym? We'll be doing it in a month if Newton or Lexington tries it first. Doesn't even have to work, just has to be something admin can check off as "done/did/tried" on the 5-year plan.

However, anti-bullying regulations have been a law in MA and faculty do have to deal with it.

Well, we used to have newspaper staffs that would fight to get more of that story, yet now we have "The Patch."

> I get wanting a less restrictive environment, but the conversation is always about the student with the problems, never about the other students negatively effected

It's $$$. School systems could send the children who exhibit violence - the ones who stab, the ones who throw chairs, the ones who grab others by the throat - to alternative schools with supportive staff who are experts in this field. But it costs more so they roll the dice that there won't be too many Colleen Ritzers or student victims.

We want amazing, incredible schools, yet we want low, low taxes. We want amazing public transportation and infrastructure for private transportation, yet we want low, low taxes. We want Mass and Cass to be safe and homeless free, yet we want low, low taxes. Etc, etc, etc...

We want an incredible society that runs smoothly, yet we half-ass everything.